Phoible.org Website Review

PHOIBLE Online is a repository of cross-linguistic phonological inventory data, which have been extracted from source docu*ents and tertiary databases and compiled into a single searchable convenience sample. The 2014 edition includes 2155 inventories that contain 2160 A bibliographic record is provided for each source docu*ent; note that some languages in PHOIBLE have multiple entries based on distinct Two principles guide the development of PHOIBLE, though it has proved challenging both theoretically and technologically to abide by them: In addition to phoneme inventories, PHOIBLE includes distinctive feature data for every phoneme in every language. The feature system used was created by the PHOIBLE developers to be descriptively adequate cross-linguistically. In other words, if two phonemes differ in their graphemic representation, then they necessarily differ in their featural representation as well (regardless of whether those two phonemes coexist in any known doculect). The feature system is loosely based on the feature system in Hayes 2009 However, the final feature system goes beyond both of these sources, and is potentially subject to change as new languages are added in The 2014 edition includes inventories from the following contributors: Christian Chanard and Rhonda L. Hartell (AA) The inventories in Alphabets of Africa (AA) come from the work of the phoneme inventories and orthographies of 200 languages. Incorrect ISO 639-3 language name identifiers and incorrect Unicode IPA characters were updated before the inventories from the online version were added to PHOIBLE (see Moran 2012, chp 4 for details). Christopher Green verified the inventories' contents and in cases where there were discrepencies between Chanard and Hartell, additional resources were Christopher Green and Steven Moran (GM) Christopher Green and Steven Moran extracted phonological inventories from secondary sources including grammars and phonological descriptions with the goal of attaining pan-Africa coverage. This is a